Liberal, NDP and Green MPs voted Tuesday to suspend all regular sittings of the House of Commons until September. In their place will be a continuation of the special all-party COVID-19 committee, with four meetings a week until mid-June and then four special House sittings over the summer.
This decision comes after two days of debate featuring approximately 50 of the 338 MPs that ended with a vote of 28-23, with the Bloc Quebecois and Conservatives in opposition.
On June 17 the special committee will cease to exist, and MPs will meet in a moderated format in the Chamber to pass the next cycle of scheduled federal spending—otherwise known as the supplementary estimates or supply—to tie overall regular federal departments until the fall. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited this issue during his press conference on Tuesday, saying they are working on it.
The government has argued that Parliament has continued to function through the pandemic, noting that under the new structure, the government has and will face more questions from the opposition than it would have under normal House sitting parameters.
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